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Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-22
study of a Brown Thrush.

lOHve ThOrue Miller IN the May AtianClc.l
The brown thrush was never SO violent
and eccentric in movement as just after his
bath. Allowing himself often but mo-
ment's hasty shake of plumage, he darted
furiously across the room, startling every
bird and alighting no one could guess where.
Then after more jerks and rapid shakings he
flung himself as unexpectedly in another di-
rection, while at every fresh turn birds scat
tered wildly everywhere, anywhere out of his
way, bringing up in the most unaccustomed
places; as for instance dignifed bird, who
the bed or a ground-lover dattened against
the side of a cage. All this disturbance
seemed to please the thrasher, for he had a
spice of mischief in his composition. A
never failing diversion was teasing a gold
finch. He began his pranks by entering the
cage and hammering on the tray, or digging
into the seed in a savage way that sent it fly
ing out in shower, which result SO enter
tanned him that I was forced to close the
door when the owner was out. This the
thrush resented, and he next took to jumping
against the side of the cage, clinging mo-
ment, then bounding off with so much force
that the cage rocked violently. Then he
placed himself on the perch by the door and
pounded and pulled, and jerked and shook
the door till, if the owner were home, he was
nearly wild. Having exhausted that amuse-
ment he jumped on the top and in some way
Jared the cage roughly. To protect it I
made cover Of paper, but contrary to my
intentions this afforded the rogue new
pleasure, for he soon found that by tramping
over it he could make great noise, and he
quickly learned the trick of tearing the pa
per into pieces, and uncoyering the little
fellow, who by the way was not in the least
afraid, but simply enraged and insulted, and
when outside stood and faced his tormentor,
clustering and scolding him well.
Tearing paper was always amusing to the
brown thrush. I have seen him take his
stand near the wall, peck at the paper till he
found weak spot where it would yield and
break, then take the torn edge in his bill and
deliberately tear it little. 1t was "snatch-
ing a fearful joy," however, for the noise al
ways startled him. First came little tear,
then a leap one side, another small rent, an
other panic; and so he went on till he had
torn off large piece which dropped to the
floor, while sat too much interested in the
performance to think of saving the paper.
(The room and its contents are always Sec
ondary to the birds comfort and pleasure in
my thoughts.) A newspaper on the floor
furnished him amusement for hours, picking
it to pieces, tearing pictures, from which he
always first pecked the faces, dragging the
whole about the floor to hear it rattle and to
scare himself with. a pile of magazines on
a table made regular playground for him,
his plan being to push and pull at the back
of one till he got it loose from the rest, and
then work at it till it fell to the floor. He
never failed to reduce the pile to disreputa-
ble-lookipg muss.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-22


"The worst case of absent-mlndedness
I ever knew off, said hotel keeper out
at Elgin, occurred in my house a few
weeks ago. The perpetrat0r was my night
norter. 1 was at the desk one night when
q man came in so drunk he couldn't sign
bis name. He was travelling man whom
7 knew, and SO of course I decided to take
good care of him, john says I to the
norter. take this man up stairs and put
him to bed and put his valise away in
the check-room.' Just then l was called
away by the sickness of a member of nay
family, and I thought no more of my
guest nor the porter, whom saw attending
to his usual duties an hour or so later. But
next morning strange discovery was made.
The chambermaid on the second Hoor re-
norted that in the bed of room IL she
had found valise, and that there were nc
signs of any person having occupied the
room during the night. It flashed over me
in a second that that porter of mine, who
was queer sort of a fellow, had made
some blunder, and I went upstairs TO IN
yestioate. There was the vallse, sure
enough, but no sign of the traveller
hunted all over the house without success
and had about given up in despair, when
happened to go into the eheck-room fo1
something, and there lay my travelling mar mar
asleep on the floor, with yalise check No. D;
carefully tied around his neck"
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-22
Lace and Handkerchief
Department.

$4,000 worth of Laces and Handkerchiefs
At this counter you can find bargains that
will surprise you, and interest you beyond
doubt.
61lc each, 500 Antique Tidies-great value
and worth 1899.
actual worth 25c.
29c each, 100 extra size Antique Tides,
worth to sell SOC.
29c for one pair Lace Pillow Shams. Never
sold under soc, roc for one pair Lace Pillow
Shams, actual worth $1.25.
zoe, line of Lace Carriage Parasol Cover.
Sold everywhere at SOC.
42c, 75c, line of Lace Carriage Parasol
Covers. Stop and look at these, actual
worth roc and $1.25.
$3.50, line of Applique Lace Carriage
Parasol Covers, worth $3.50.
Sc, line of Egyptian Laees, many pat
terms, worth 20c.
zoe, 39c, line of black beaded Vests.
Remarkable value.
79c, $1.25, line of black beaded Fronts,
worth double the money.
$1.48, S1.75, two pieces 42-inch Black
Silk Chantilly Flounces, worth So and So. so.
10c a line of White Embroideries; this is
the biggest value yet offered by US, and worth
zoe to Csc yard.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-22


A barrel of punched tickets is sent
by the East River bridge trustees every
day to the junk dealers, who pay the
magnificent sum of half a cent pound
for them. With the great mass of people
that cross the bridge the business of pur-
chasing ticket and depositing it in the
box is performed with the utmost nonchal-
ance. But with others the matter is one
of great embarrassment, and in their con
fusion and hurry they drop into the box
anything that happens to be in their hands
or pockets. Passengers for the cars fire.,
quently pour handful of coin down into
the hopper and put their tickets carefully
away in their pocket-books The eurio-
book contains all kinds of cards-visiting,
business and postal Theater tickets and
checks are abundant. Turf tickets also
abound, with large sprinkling of railroad
tickets. Staten Island, Jersey City, Hobo
ken, East River and East Boston ferry tickets
are plentiful.
Such articles as cigars, cigarettes, pretzels,
toothpicks, kid gloves and penkniVes are not
preserved.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-22
Cheviots, HOmespuns, Worsteds

In these cloths made by mills of establish
ed eputation-American, Harris, Broad
brock, Riverside, Rock, Sawyer, and others
are the styles of suits worn by the major
ity of we'll dressed men and young men.
They are light yet firm in texture, and ad-
mirably adapted to spring-summer wear
to long and even wear. In manufacture
they are equal to any, and include checks,
stripes, broken plaids, plain black cork
screws, serges, silk mixtures. Prices, $40,
s1s. $13, SIS, $18, $50, $22, $23, $24, $25,
S28, $50 Coats cut Prince Albert style, A.
button cut-away frocks, double breasted
sacks, straight sacks, 4-button sacks, and
English frocks.
Spring Overcoats, of exceptional quality
and desirability at $3.50 to s25. Boys N.
Y. suits So. so to $22.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-22
ticed that the dark spot on the peak had van

ticed that the dark spot on the peak had van
ished from sight The circumstance made
quite an impression on my mind at the time,
and have kept close watch since; but the
patch never reappeared until few days ago.
The warm, bright days have produced an eff
feet on the snowy masses and lifted the icy
veil from that old and to my eye familiar
speck. It is the first time inside of twenty
five years that it was buried from view.
Nothing in my opinion could have produced
that result but a tremendous fall of snow,
and it must have descended all along the
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-22
A Quail shower IN Nevada.


Sportsmen in this part of Nevada are Ia
menting the great slaughter of quails made
by pot hunters the Carson and in other
places where the birds sought shelter during
the late big storm. Such slaughter is to be
deplored, but it may be that we shall have
new stock of quail sent US. A few years
ago we had in this city most remarkable
shower of quail. It was reminder of the
great shower Of quail we read of in the BIZ
ble-the shower that fell in the camp of the
Israelites when they began bowling about
the flesh pots they had left behind in Egypt.
The irruption of quails occurred about four
o'clock in the afternoon in the fall Of the
year. The flight of birds came from the
northward as was supposed, as they settled
in the north end of the city. Where the
quail came from no one could imagine, as
they were of the large mountain variety and
perfect beauties. The fall of birds extended
from about Sutton avenue out north to the
Union shaft, reaching over three-quarters OF
a mile of ground. When they fell they
seemed to be completely exhausted. People
caught them by puttingrt their hats over them
or BY simply picking them up. Everybody
had quail.
Besides the birds that were killed, about
hundred were caught alive and kept in cages
and pens in various parts of the town. A
curious thing was that those that were caught
and Gagged seemed perfectly tame and at home
at once. There were at the time many con-
fiicting opinions about this great flight of
quails. The most probable solution of the
phenomenon was that the birds had collec-
ted at some point in the Sierras for the pur-
pose of migrating to the southwark, but had
either mistaken their course or had been
blown out of it. and so flew on and on till
they were obliged to come to the ground
through exhaustion. Night coming on soon
after the flight of the birds fell hundreds
roasted about the town, and next day boys
were catching and killing them up to eleven
or twelve o'clock. By that time nearly all
the bewildered wanderers had scattered away
into the hills. There they doubtless remained
to breed and stock the country, as it is not
known that they ever got together again to
try second flight
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-22
Personal Atfractiveness

Now claims attention of old and young. The
people do feel better, enjoy life more in
shapely, and comfortable dress, and all are
now searching for it, for it is affirmed by the
weather prophets that winters last snow
sift was parting touch.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-22
Heavy SHOWS In Oregon.
TEro,,, tJ,a Dort1opd N,.ron,,n

Speaking yesterday of the great quantities
of snow which have fallen in the Cascade
Mountains during the past winter, an old
resident of Portland said to reporter 81
have lived nearly all my life in this city and
have generally observed the weather expert
enced every year. On the southwest side of
st. Helen's Peak, near the summit, a small,
dark blue spot has always been plainly visi-
BILE from here. This spot must be either a
high cliff or rock or patch of heavy tim
Der. Winter and summer, as far back as I
can remember, that little speck has always
in a vast field of spotless snow lining the
sides and summit of the old mountain. Just
after that heavy fall of snow which we had
prior to the general olearing-up storm, no.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-22
Hosiery and Underwear

$4,000 worth Of Ladies' and Gents
Hosiery and Underwear, to be placed on our
counters at prices. that will astonish buyers.
The most pleasing thing to us is when the
ladies look round and examine goods and
prices elsewhere. 1t increases our sales and
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-22

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DELIVERED BY CARRIERS In THE CITY, is
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FOR SIX MONTHS, $500 A YEAR. THE SAME
TERMS By MAIL.
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ga1111dries.
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CARPETS. CARPETS.
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Send us your orders for Carpet Cleaning, and we
will send for and return them to you without extra
charge. Every Carpet we do for you we will war
rant to be thoroughly cleaned and without injury.
Window Shades, Lace Curtains, and Curtains OF
every description, dyed or cleaned, and warranted
to be done up equal to the work of any New York
establishment.
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Prohibition does not prohibit in Rhode Is
land. The Providence Journal says Of its
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-22

At the mouth of Cornish mine there is
this advice: ''Do not fall down this shaft,
as there are men at work at the bottom of
it."
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rhe British Parliament.

The British Parliament was pro-
rogued September 10th. The Queens
speech closing the session was formal
in character and contains the following:
81 have agreed with the President OF
the United States to refer to a joint COM
mission the difficult question respecting
the North American fisheries, which
have been recently discussed by the two
nations"
Following is the reference to Irish
matters ''The wants and difficulties OF
Ireland have occupied your close atten-
ton during protracted session. trust
the remedies your wisdom has provided
will gradually effect the complete resto-
ration of order in Ireland and give re-
newed courage to a peaceful industry.
In order to pass them it has been neces-
sary to postpone many impartant meas
ures affecting other parts of the King
dom, which doubtless you will be able
to resume without hindrance at the
coming session."
The speech concludes thus: 'FThis
year, the fftieth anniversary of my
reign, has been the occasion of the ex-
preston of fervant loyalty which has
deeply touched me. I am, indeed,
thankful for the warm, hearty proofs OF
affection which have reached me from
all classes. In thanking God for the
blessings he has vouchsafed me and my
country trust l may be spared to reign
over a loving, faithful and united
people"
Parliament has been prorogued until
November 3Oth.
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sugar Rennertes.

New YORK, September 22d.-It is cur
rently reported that new trust is shortly
TO be formed to represent combination
of all sugar re6neries in the Atlantic sea-
board States, including Louisiana. For
some time a move of this kind has been
contemplated by the trade and heartily
Endorsed by large refners in this city, but
the hitch in the carrying out of the pro-
gramme has come heretofore from the
unwillingness of some of our own firms
to join in the movement. A representa-
tive of the Brooklyn Sugar Refinery said
yesterday in reference to the reported
trust: "a movement is most certainly
on foot to establish combination among
the sugar refners of the East, and to this
end several plans are now being discussed
by the parties in interest"
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Coione. spreckels interviewed.

A New York 90 Herald " reporter inter
viewed Colonel Claus Spreckels in Lon
don September 18th. In the course of
the interview the Colonel said he found
Germany at present the greatest beet
sugar country the world ever saw. There
is some marvellous machinery used for
making beet sugar. He had bought 25O,-
900 marks worth of the principal parts of
the machinery in Cologne and Prague
for the purpose of establishing beet
sugar factory in California, but the minor
parts of the machinery he could get made
in the United States. He was convinced
that beet-sugar making with his new
machinery will create one of the greatest
industries the United States ever had.
He should never rest until he had made
the United States the greatest beet-sugar
producer, manufacturer and market in
the world. His new factory in California
will be built to use $50 tons of beets every
twenty-four hours, which will produce
about 40 tons of sugar per day. The ex-
act spot for it's location he had not yet
settled, but would do so as soon as he got
back home.
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DEPARTURES,
SHIPPING NOTES.

The steamers Likelike. MokOlii and j. A. Cum
minis will arrive this morning.
The American schooner Rosario arrived at
Eureka California, September 18th, from Kahu-
lui, Maui.
The steamers Iwalani and Mikahala will
rive tomorrow morning.
The Hawaiian schooner Csnute arrived at Hum
boldt Bay, California. September 18th, from
Honolulu, and is probably on her way back with
lumber.
HB. NJ. s. Cormorant Captain Jasper c. T.
Nicolls. leaves this morning for the South Sea
Islands.
The American bark James s. Stone, Captain c.
F. Barstow, arrived at Hongkong, September
18th. from Honolulu, via Manila.
The American tern W. S. Bovine, Captain VIM.
Bluhm arrived at San Francisco, September
18th, 2312 days from Honolulu.
The barkentine Planter Captain Perriman, ar
rived at San Francisco September both, 10 days
from Honolulu.
The steamer Kinau is due tomorrow morni g
from Maui and Hawaii.
The American bark Forest Queen, Captain J..
c. NJ Winding, is Is days out from San Francisco
for Honolulu.
D.
will leave to-day for Samoa.
The steamer c. R. Bishop arrived September
Seth from circuit of this island, with 40 bags
rice and 100 bags rice bran. She leaves again
next Monday morning.
The steamer Waimanalo arrived last evening
from Waialua and Waianae, with general mer-
chandise, and will leave again next Monday
morning.
The American steamship Alameda, Captain H.
&. Morse, arrived early September Both, days
and IA hours from San Francisco. After dis
charging cargo for this port and taking on board
COAL she proceeded on her way to the Colonies
at p the day. She took horses and
27,642 packages in transit, and cases paintings
and cases effects from here, valued at 1924 SO.
First three days wind wNW and NNW with
foggy weather; thence light southerly and ESE
winds with fine weather and smooth sea.
First three days passed several sailing vessels;
the 27th, at 10 a. M. passed the Mariposa, and
arrived in Honolulu September Both at O'Clock
a. IN
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CHU ON & co.
importers and Dealers ia Chinese
and Japanese Goods. AZ Nuuanu
Street

Have constantly on hand Silk, Satin,
Grape, Grass Cloth, Embroidered and
Hemstitched Silk and Grass-cloth Hand
kerchiefs, Silk and Grape Shawls and
Scarfs
A great variety of Japanese and Chi
nese Tea Sets, Vases, Bronze and Lac
quered Wares.
Ivory, Sandalwood and Tortoiseshell
Gard Cases, Paper Cutters, Fans and
Jewelry Cases
Gold and Silver Jewelry, setting with
tiger claws, cat-eyes and amber, such as
Scarf Pins, Earrings, Bracelets, Neck
laces, etc.
An assortment of Chinese and Japan
csc nick-nacks and crlriosities too num-
erous to specify.
Chinese Mating speciality.
Also, just received, ex Hawaiian bark
Lillian" large invoice of Ebony anu
Marble Furniture in SETS Table, Chairs
and Settles.
A full assortment of Flower Pots, Arti-
fetal Flower Baskets, Lacquered and
Bamboo Goods, etc.
The public is respectfully invited to
inspect our goods. 768 feb2
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The Pacific Cable.

The Chicago "Times'" Ottawa spe-
cial of September 23d says: The Govern
ment has received an intimation from
the Imperial authorities that the British
Government cannot undertake to pay for
a special survey of the route of the pro-
posed trans-Pacific cable between British
Columbia and New Zealand and Austria
liza, unless some guaranty is given that
the line will actually be laid. Under
these circumstances Sanford Fleming,
who may be looked upon as the father of
the intercolonial cable scheme, has sug-
gested to Foster, Minister of Marine and
Finance, that the colonies themselves
should undertake to pay the cost of the
survey. He proposes that Canada's con-
tribution thereto should be a loan of a
vessel. Foster is favorably impressed
with the project and will at once lay the
matter before his colleagues.
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h. VI. =. Alameda.

The Royal Mail steamship Alameda
arrived early yesterday morning, 6 days
and II hours from San Francisco She
left the latter port on the 23d at 8 40 p.
IN. On the 9th at 10 a. m. passed the
Mariposa. She brought SO cabin and II
steerage passengers for this port and had
in transit for the Colonies As cabin and
40 in the steerage. Her freight list to
the Colonies included large quantity of
fresh fruit and onions, also canned fruit
and salmon and 6 1000 cases of apples.
After taking on passengers and the
mails, she left at o'clock yesterday
afternoon for the Colonies.
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boat Jesse H. Freeman, now on the way
from Boston. She will be built at the
yard in the Potrero, on the slip alongside
the Charleston. Her dimensions are:
Length $40 feet, beam 80 feet, total depth
26 feet, and she will cost considerably over
100000. Her tonnage will be about 1000,
and in appointments she will be the peer
of any vessel ON the Pacific. The cabin
and staterOoms will be fitted out in the
best manner an electric light plan is in
Guided in the specifications, and there will
be ample accommodation of 200 persons.
The motive power will be supplied by
triple expansion engines, capable of pro-
ducing a speed of fifteen knots an hour.
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Blue Ribbon League.

The following is the programme to be
given this evening at the Y. M. @. A.
Hall, under the auspices OF the Blue
Ribbon League:
Piano duet ii Trovatore" ..........
T The Misses Young
Reading Miss SpoOner
Vocal duet Larboard Watch.
49,. Messrs. Van Slyke and Lyman
Reading-"The Village Blacksmith"
Mrs HanfOrd
Address - Rev. H. H. GoWen
All are invited to attend.
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The Ioran CONCERTS.

During next week the Misses Joran,
assisted by Signor Roselli, will give
three grand concerts in the Hawaiian
Opera House. They will take place
Monday, Thursday and Saturday even
ings. The box plan for the sale of seats
for Mondays cancert will open at 9
O'Clock this morning at Mr.. J. II. Soper's
book and stationery store, Merchant
street. We hope to see full house on
each occasion.